Darkness (2002 film)
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| Directed by | Jaume Balagueró |
| Produced by | Julio Fernández Brian Yuzna |
| Written by | Jaume Balagueró Fernando de Felipe |
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Anna Paquin Lena Olin Iain Glen Giancarlo Giannini Stephan Enquist |
| Music by | Carles Cases |
| Cinematography | Sylvia Steinbrecht |
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| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
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102 minutes |
| Country | Spain United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10.6 million |
| Box office | $34,409,206 |
Darkness is a 2002 Spanish-American horror film, directed by Jaume Balagueró and starring Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini and Fele Martínez. The film was produced by Julio Fernández and Brian Yuzna. The film's plot follows an American family who move into a house in the Spanish countryside, where six children disappeared during an occult ritual forty years before; the teenage daughter and young son of the family are subjected to increasing disturbances in the house.
The film premiered in Spain on October 3, 2002, and was released in theaters across the country eight days later, on October 11, 2002. It was sold to Miramax Films for American distribution in 2003, but ended up being put on hiatus for over a year; it was eventually released in United States theaters in an edited, PG-13-rated cut, on December 25, 2004.
Forty years after an unfinished occult ritual resulted in the disappearance of six young children, an American family has moved into a never-before inhabited house in Spain. The mother, Maria (Olin), wants to get the place in order, while the father, Mark (Glen), goes to work, and their children, teenager Regina (Paquin) and her younger brother Paul (Enquist), try to settle into their daily routines.
It helps that Mark's doctor-father, Albert Rua (Giannini) has furnished them with their residence and is nearby, especially when Mark begins to suffer from seizures again due to the progression of his Huntington's disease, which also causes him to become increasingly mentally unstable. Regina is not only worried about him, but also Paul who is now scared of the dark for the first time. The young boy has reason for that, however, as there seems to be some sort of supernatural entity beneath his bed. Furthermore, there are instances when ghostly figures of children are seen standing in the shadow and darkness, watching the family.
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